About me

I am a so called ‘restaurant kid’. I grew up in my parents’ restaurants. Determined to choose a different path, I enrolled in acting school at the HKU Theatre School in Utrecht, The Netherlands. After a few trips into the acting world, I finally found myself back where it all began: cooking and delicious food. Together with Igor I founded De Bio Basis in the small town of Zeist. It started as an organic food store with a coffee bar, where we purchased directly from local farmers. It was a place where we built a beautiful community around food and people, a place where customers met the farmers behind their produce. Over the years it organically flowed into a cozy restaurant and eventually a organic catering company, where I regularly worked as a private chef.

Cooking for me is about creativity, joy, excitement and love, which I like to share with people in different ways. During my work as a chef I realised a lot of people experience cooking as a burden. But with a few simple tricks I had learned over the years, those daily annoyments could easily be turned into enjoyments. With that in mind I started the cooking retreats at Bright View Retreats.

I completed the professional culinary training at Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland. Besides my passion for food, I have a great love for people and dancing.